Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes: 29

• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  This is My Story

• A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

• Do one thing every day that scares you.

• If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

• Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

• The giving of love is an education in itself.

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

  You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

• You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

• No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

• The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

• Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

  The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

• Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

• Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

• Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

• Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

• It's your life-but only if you make it so.

  You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

• Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

  This is My Story

• All of life is a constant education.

  The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt

• I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

• You must do the things you think you cannot do.

• Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.